How Landscape Heterogeneity Frames Optimal Diffusivity in Searching Processes

E. P. Raposo; F. Bartumeus; M. G. E. da Luz; P. J. Ribeiro-Neto; T. A. Souza; G. M. Viswanathan

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002233

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How Landscape Heterogeneity Frames Optimal Diffusivity in Searching Processes

E. P. Raposo ,

* E-mail: ernesto@df.ufpe.br

Affiliation Laboratório de Física Teórica e Computacional, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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F. Bartumeus,

Affiliation Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, CEAB-CSIC, Blanes, Spain
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M. G. E. da Luz,

Affiliation Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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P. J. Ribeiro-Neto,

Affiliation Laboratório de Física Teórica e Computacional, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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T. A. Souza,

Affiliations Laboratório de Física Teórica e Computacional, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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G. M. Viswanathan

Affiliations Departamento de Física Teórica e Experimental, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil
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How Landscape Heterogeneity Frames Optimal Diffusivity in Searching Processes

E. P. Raposo,
F. Bartumeus,
M. G. E. da Luz,
P. J. Ribeiro-Neto,
T. A. Souza,
G. M. Viswanathan

Published: November 3, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002233

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Interesting paper

Posted by anitamehta on 22 Nov 2011 at 09:43 GMT

Dear authors, I found your work very interesting. We have recently done some work on search processes in the visual system, where there are links with some of your results:

http://boson.bose.res.in/...

No competing interests declared.

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